PLEASE CIRCULATE WIDELY June 27, 2000 Dear Friend of Tibet: IT'S TIME TO PULL OUT ALL THE STOPS! This is the final stretch in the campaign to stop the World Bank's China-Tibet resettlement project -- the project His Holiness the Dalai Lama refers to as international funding of China's policy of cultural genocide in his homeland. The Bank's Board of Directors will decide the FINAL OUTCOME of the resettlement project on July 6th, 2000. We need YOU to raise your voice NOW and tell the Board NO. No project, no fix-it plan, no compromise for this fatally flawed project. Please focus all of your energies on mobilizing your friends and family to help STOP THE PROJECT today. For rapid fax and e-mail action and the latest updates, go on-line to http://savetibet.wego.com/go/wego.pages.page?groupId=38613&view=page&pageId=53 790&folderId=53789&panelId=-1&action=view. BACKGROUND The World Bank's independent Inspection Panel Report (IP Report) on their 8-month investigation the project was delivered to Bank management and Board members on April 28th. On June 22nd, Bank Management sent their response to the IP Report to the Board of Executive Directors. Though the IP Report and Management's Response are still technically confidential, the Financial Times obtained a copy and published the Executive Summary of the IP Report on their website. It can now be found at http://savetibet.wego.com/go/wego.pages.page?groupId=38613&view=page&pageId=24 7349&folderId=53789&panelId=-1&action=view The Executive Summary is a scathing indictment of the project. It documents a "climate of fear" in the project area - Tibetans are unable to speak freely about their opinions about the project for fear of reprisal. The Summary also enumerates severe violations of 6 out of 9 of the Bank's most fundamental safeguard policies, including those on Indigenous Peoples, Resettlement, Environmental Assessment and Information Disclosure Policies, among others. Moreover, the Report apparently raises important questions about fundamental institutional problems, and in particular the chronic weaknesses in the Bank's application of its environmental and social policies in China. TAKE ACTION NOW!!! Here's how: To send a rapid fax to the Board of Directors, to President Wolfensohn, and to Vice President Kassum. Go online to http://savetibet.wego.com/go/wego.pages.page?groupId=38613&view=page&pageId=53 820&folderId=53789&panelId=-1&action=view Also, please: - Contact your Treasury Department/Finance Ministry by phone, fax, e-mail. - Mobilize sympathetic Members of Parliament/Congress to write letters to your Government's Treasury Department, to President Wolfensohn, and to the entire Board of Executive Directors. - On all written correspondence, please CC: Peter Stephens from the Office of External Affairs Tel. 202.458.2281; Fax 202.522.3405; <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and ICT, fax 202.785.4343. TALKING POINTS 1. Read the Inspection Panel Report. 2. Demand that the project is withdrawn or cancelled in its entirety. The Board should not allow Management to try and "fix" the problems with the project, but should cancel it outright. No amount of tinkering around the edges will fix the fundamental flaws in the project design, nor can they adequately address the "climate of fear" that pervades the project region and will continue to undermine the principle of full and informed consultation. Remind them that if this project were to go forward it would demonstrate to the international community that the Bank lacks the commitment to enforce its own policies and standards; it would result in increased public and governmental scrutiny of other Bank projects in China and elsewhere, particularly those that involve resettlement; and it would put an international stamp of approval on China's policy of population transfer into occupied Tibet. THANKS TO ALL OF YOU WHO TAKE THE TIME TO HELP TIBET! International Campaign for Tibet 1825 K Street NW, Suite 520 Washington, DC 20006 tel. 202-785-1515 * fax. 202-785-4343 http://www.savetibet.org Join ICT and the Dalai Lama in Washington, DC Sunday, July 2. 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